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gptkb:play
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gptkbp:adaptedInto
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gptkb:film
gptkb:novel
gptkb:opera
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:Oedipus_the_King
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gptkbp:author
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Sophocles
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gptkbp:conflict
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Oedipus seeks the truth about his origins
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gptkbp:countryOfOrigin
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Ancient Greece
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gptkbp:firstPerformed
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circa 429 BC
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gptkbp:firstPublished
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circa 429 BC
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gptkbp:followedBy
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gptkb:Antigone
gptkb:Oedipus_at_Colonus
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gptkbp:form
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verse
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gptkbp:genre
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tragedy
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
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gptkbp:influenced
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Western literature
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:Greek_mythology
gptkb:oral_tradition
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gptkbp:literaryPeriod
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gptkb:Classical_Greek
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gptkbp:mainCharacter
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gptkb:Oedipus
gptkb:Tiresias
gptkb:Laius
gptkb:Jocasta
gptkb:Creon
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gptkbp:notableAdaptation
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gptkb:Seneca's_'Oedipus'
Igor Stravinsky's opera 'Oedipus Rex'
Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1967 film 'Edipo Re'
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gptkbp:notableQuote
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"Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last."
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gptkbp:originalLanguage
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gptkb:Ancient_Greek
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gptkbp:partOf
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gptkb:Theban_Plays
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gptkbp:precededBy
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none (first of Theban Plays chronologically)
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gptkbp:setting
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gptkb:Thebes
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gptkbp:structure
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gptkb:public_speaker
Prologue
exodus
choral odes
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gptkbp:subject
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fate
free will
incest
patricide
tragic flaw
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gptkbp:theme
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self-discovery
guilt and innocence
power and kingship
blindness and sight
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gptkbp:translatedInto
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gptkb:David_Grene
gptkb:Robert_Fagles
gptkb:E._F._Watling
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Seven_Against_Thebes
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5
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